Watch as dad and musician Jorge Narvaez sings alongside his daughter Alexa for an amazing acoustic performance of the Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros song “Home.” On his official Youtube page, Jorge explains that he’s a proud single dad working his way through college and this video is him enjoying some “good times” with his daughter.
And what does the band think of Jorge and Alexa’s cover of their song? On their Facebook page, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros posted the video, along with the comment, “beautiful in every way.”
Month: March 2011
Won’t get fooled again
Oh God, I love the Who:
For no one
Big road
Amy Black and the Red Clay Ramblers:
Over and over again (lost and found)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah:
The night before
It’s a Mercury retro starting tomorrow. Back up your computers tonight!
Jane says
Jane’s Addiction:
Not guilty
Of anything, really. But that will never be enough for the wingnuts!
Everybody’s got something to hide except me and my monkey
Isn’t it funny that they only pay attention to this stuff when they have to?
WASHINGTON — Almost all American nuclear power plants have backup batteries that would last only half as long as those at Japan’s troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant did after a tsunami knocked out power there, an expert testified Tuesday at a Senate committee briefing on nuclear safety.
An industry official, addressing the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, conceded that battery life was “one of the obvious places” that nuclear operators would examine for potential improvements.
David Lochbaum, a nuclear expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists, which generally takes a critical tone toward nuclear reactors, said that just 11 of the nation’s 104 plants had eight-hour batteries, and 93 had four-hour batteries. The batteries are not powerful enough to run pumps that direct cooling water, but they can operate valves and can power instruments that give readings of water levels, flow and temperatures.
In the meantime, Japanese officials are considering stem cell transplants for workers at the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor.
You say you want a revolution
First of all, to say I’m not keen on military intervention is a huge understatement. The only instance in which I felt we had the high ground was when we took part in the 1995 NATO attacks on Kosovo to stop ethnic cleansing and mass rapes. (And even about that, I have some doubts.) And it’s always a red flag when human rights rhetoric is used to justify military intervention.
So when I got invited to the White House blogger call on Libya today, I asked a pretty obvious question.
“We sell massive amounts of arms to repressive regimes in the Middle East, and now in Libya, we’re using our arms to stop them from using their arms against their own people,” I said. “Wouldn’t it make more sense not to sell arms to repressive regimes in the first place?”
Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor, hemmed and hawed a bit.
He said that the Libyan government had a relationship with the United States until the uprising, and that the situation had changed. He also said it was an “interesting case” with the Mubarak government, that the U.S.’s “longstanding relationship with the Egyptian military allowed us to pay a positive role in some respects.”
“We need to take a step back and assess the strategy of arming different regimes, look at it regionally and country by country, understanding the change that’s being made and balance that with our interests.”
Rhodes responded to a question from Spencer Ackerman about whether the U.S. was planning to expand its mission in Libya to include ground troops.
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